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To a small mountain community where child marriage is widely accepted, comes schoolteacher Miss Carol, hoping to change the custom. Her efforts are opposed by the men who are married to child wives and even the children of those wives. Miss Carol enlists her fiancé Charles, an assistant district attorney, to lobby the state to pass legislation outlawing child marriage. Eleven-year-old Jennie Colton is blissfully dating Freddie Nulty, a boy her own age, unaware that she is coveted by Jake Bolby, her father's ex-partner who has lusted after the young girl ever since seeing her swim naked. One day, during an argument between Jennie's parents, Mr. Colton knocks his wife unconscious and Bolby then sneaks into the house and kills him. When Mrs. Colton regains consciousness, Bolby convinces her that she murdered her husband before losing consciousness. Bolby then promises to keep Mrs. Colton's murderous act a secret if she will award him Jennie's hand in marriage. Intimidated, Mrs. Colton agrees, and after the wedding, the newlyweds go the Bolbys' cabin to consummate their marriage. There, Angelo, a dwarf who loaths Bolby for his abusive behavior, shoots and kills him, thus freeing Jennie from her bonds of marriage. Jennie then promises to marry Freddie as soon as they reach adulthood. All ends happily as Charles arrives to inform his crusading fiancé that an anti-child marriage law has finally been passed.